The File and Folder Recovery Process
Use the RESTORE FILE operation to recover specific files and folders from the recovery site.
When you set up file and folder recovery, you always specify a checkpoint to which you want to recover the files and folders. When you select a checkpoint – either the last automatically generated checkpoint, an earlier automatically generated checkpoint, or a tagged checkpoint – Zerto Virtual Replication makes sure that the files and folders replicated at the remote site are recovered to this specified point-in-time.
The file and folder operation has the following basic steps:
■ Selecting the virtual machine that is protected on which the files or folders to recover are located.
■ Selecting the checkpoint at which the files and folders will be recovered.
■ Selecting the disk which contains the files and folders to recover.
Note: You can only recover files and folders from one disk at a time.
■ Mounting the selected disk.
■ Selecting the files and folders on the disk to recover.
■ Downloading the selected files and folders. The files are downloaded to the machine where you run the Zerto User Interface. Make sure that this machine has enough space for the recovered files.
■ Unmounting the selected disk.
You can only recover files and folders from one disk at a time. After the required disk is mounted, if you want to recover files or folders from another disk, you can begin the mount process for the second disk. Zerto Virtual Replication does not support mounting the same volume twice, for example if you want a file from two different checkpoints.
The operating system of the machine on which the recovery site Zerto Virtual Manager is installed determines the types of file systems from which files and folders can be recovered. When the operating system supports a file system, files and folders can be recovered from it. For example, if a protected virtual machine running Windows 2012 has files using the ReFS file system and requires one or more of these files to be recovered and the recovery site Zerto Virtual Manager is on a machine with Windows 2008, which does not support ReFS, the protected virtual machine files and folders cannot be recovered.
Note the following:
■ You cannot recover files or folders from Linux machines.
■ You cannot recover files or folders from a virtual machine when a test failover, live failover, move, clone, or backup is being performed on a VPG that contains the virtual machine.